[Toad]

I'm sorry...last one, I promise...

[Banded Drake]

Another great job Toad , you will have to explain your PP tech. to us . I really like the Cafe shots .

........ Shawn

[Toad]

Thanks Drake. I am pretty happy with the series and am seriously considering doing a calendar or post card book of the better ones. I have quite a few.

[Pat]

Fantastic shots, I love them

[championboxer]

yeah.. i love it esp with the tower subtlely behind in the backgrd...

[Don Schaeffer]

These are beautiful. You should make giant prints.

[Wedding Shooter]

Was this the same location as the "Vesper's" shot?

[Toad]

Yup - good catch. Different night though.

[Toad]

Another great job Toad , you will have to explain your PP tech. to us . Shawn

Well, I wish I could. They are all different depending on what I was starting with. I mess with them as I see fit and can't really recreate what I did afterwards. This one was done the hard way without HDR. You can do a lot of shadow recovery if you shoot RAW. Here is the original I started with. You can see why I ignored it up to now...



I know I started with perspective correction, and some selective burning. I also can see that I did some simplification on the cafe itself. I also remember painting in the "no-entry" signs with dark red. Other than that...who knows?

Strangely enough, this is not my first kick at this particular cat... In 2002, I did this shot that I have actually sold a couple of times. It was the success of this shot that inspired me to do my cafe series this year,

[Banded Drake]

Thanx for trying Toad ,

I guess i will have to stab at RAW once i get used to the new camera . Then maybe i can understand more LOL.

BTW , my wife said if/when you do your calander or post cards she wants them . She loves the Cafe' shots as much as we do .


........... Shawn

[Wedding Shooter]

Shawn - have a go at shooting RAW plus JPEG and see how you go. Than you have the JPEG and can always go back to the RAW at a later date.